Polish Art
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Polish Art
On the 26th of January I decided to visit for the first time the San Diego
Museum of Arts. When I came upon the museum which from a view was an astonishing
piece of architectural exquisiteness. This extravagant building was amazingly
distinguishable from all the other ill-rooted, stucco wall structures
surroundings. I arrived at the admission desk and upon purchasing my 6$ ticket
the young lady told me that there is an exhibition on Art in Poland. I was still
thinking that the museum would display some works from Italy, France, Spain, and
other well-known European art. Puzzled I asked her about what was troubling me
and she responded by saying “Sir, we only have items related to this specific
exhibition for the next months”. My expectation was that this museum would
have visual arts that I had been familiarized during my “European
Humanities” class. But since their was only a couple of days until the due
date for this report and Poland was part of European art I decided to take a
risk and discover the unknown. The exhibition features splendid and often exotic
objects from a time when Poland, which was united in a Republic with Lithuania,
was the largest nation in Europe. Located on Europe's eastern frontier, Poland
was viewed by its western allies as the Bulwark of Christendom, Defender of the
Faith against the Moslem Ottoman Empire that lay to the east. Because Poland was
situated at a crossroads of international trade, Polish culture became a
synthesis of western and eastern influences.. Roman and Byzantine Christianity,
Protestantism, Islam, Judaism, and variations in-between, met with the western
Renaissance and Baroque; and absorbed prominent influences from Turkish, Arabic
and Oriental cultures.. The Baroque is all the more evident when seen from a
society which knew neither the Middle Ages nor a subsequent Renaissance.
Including fine examples of Baroque art and splendid objects from a land greatly
influenced by the developing eastern and western cultures. "Land of The
Winged Horsemen/ Art in Poland 1572-1764," is exciting in the scale,
quality and range of the artworks on display. This exhibition is more than an
unprecedented showing of art objects, or a survey of uncommon history. It
restores a balance to my recent misperceptions of Europe and its art legacy,
brings us to examine more closely Renaissance, Baroque, earlier perceptions of
Western and Eastern, and the show intrigues with its range of cross-cultural
interpretations and sy...
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